there are similarities between other languages ?
Hello everyone. here is Sergio from Brazil.
here is a global curiosity.
I always had this curiosity.
There is a great similarity between Portuguese and Spanish, between any two native languages, can also understand at least some 50% of another language without having studied it before. (this is just my point of view).
the question is. there are similarities between other languages such as English German among Arab countries, Asian countries, etc. ..
thank you in advance for your reply.
This question is for every citizen of the world.
a big hug to everyone

Question

there are similarities between other languages ?
Hello everyone. here is Sergio from Brazil.
  here is a global curiosity.
 I always had this curiosity.
 There is a great similarity between Portuguese and Spanish, between any two native languages, can also understand at least some 50% of another language without having studied it before. (this is just my point of view).
 the question is. there are similarities between other languages such as English German among Arab countries, Asian countries, etc. ..
 thank you in advance for your reply.
 This question is for every citizen of the world.
 a big hug to everyone

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And yet, even words that do not seem to have the same origin in fact have.. some researches says that all Indo-European languages share the same origin. Even English being a Germanic language , and sharing all those words mentioned by Larry. If you take the composed verbal tenses in Portuguese you'll see that they are quite similar to the English one.

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Well Sérgio. English has over 4,000 words in common with Portuguese. The differences are often very small. Sometimes the words are exactly the same. I find it difficult to trust these words because they seem like English to me. I don't feel that I am using a Portuguese word.

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portuguese have some similar words with indonesian as well.
either portuguese or spanish. like gratis means free just like portuguese.
boneca in indonesian is boneka. lol 
and tante (aunt) is exactly the same in dutch and indonesian. 
i guess cos the dutch used to take over.
there are some words that are similar too between indo and japanese.
and heaps of similar words between indo and english, so its easy to learn indonesian. and we dont have the whole sex thing like vagabunda and vagabundo or he and she.  we have only one word for anyone. 
no past tense as well.

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I do..
I have this feeling with Italian, French and Spanish .. they are all romantic.. so similar.. but depends on the context too. I'd say that I get about 20% of Spanish (Argentinian).. maybe more in certain situations.
I may be wrong, but English has some things to do with German.. there are some words and sounds quite similar.. both are Germanic Languages..
Larry, is there any other language that a native English speaker would understand without studding it?

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Yes , I undresyand it, but, the doubt is other . for example- If we brazilians are listening a person from Argentina , certanly we will understand almost all waht they are saying,  What I want to know is, (example) if a korean person are listening a chinese talking , maybe he can understand the mostly things or not , it´s only a example,. and no only a just some word but the structure of phrases are similar , understand me? 
Larry and Alexandre,  thanks very much for your response!

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